different between example vs mwe

English

Etymology

From Middle English exaumple, example, from Old French essample (French exemple), from Latin exemplum (“a sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out (as a sample)”), from exim? (“take out”), from ex (“out”) + em? (“buy; acquire”); see exempt. Displaced native Middle English bisne, forbus, forbusen from Old English b?sen, and Middle English byspel from Old English b?spell. Doublet of exemplum and sample.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??mpl?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???z??mp?/
• (General Australian, US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /???zæmpl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???zæmpl?/
• Rhymes: -??mp?l, -æmp?l
• Hyphenation: ex?am?ple

Noun

example (plural examples)

1. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
2. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
3. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
4. A person punished as a warning to others.
5. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
6. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.

Synonyms

• e.g.
• See also Thesaurus:model
• See also Thesaurus:exemplar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• exemplar
• model
• pattern
• quotation
• template

Verb

example (third-person singular simple present examples, present participle exampling, simple past and past participle exampled)

1. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

Further reading

• example in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• example in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• exempla

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mw?/

Adjective

mwe

1. one

2. (with plural) some

Inflection

Derived terms

• hamwe (“together”)

(Proverbs)

• and? matar? ndundu mah?ragwo na nj?g?ma ?mwe
• g?ath? g?tharagio n? gaka kamwe
• kaara kamwe gati?ragaga ndaa
• k?ara k?mwe g?ti?ragaga ndaa
• m?tumia na k?onje n? ?nd? ?mwe
• mwagi maguta oigaga at? huny? n? ?mwe na ar?me
• r?tungu r?mwe r?tiraragia mwaki
• ??g? wa m?nd? ?mwe nd?r?maga

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

mwe

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Etymology 2

From Old French muer.

Verb

mwe

1. Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-mwé

1. one
2. (placed before a noun) other, another

Derived terms

• kamwe (“at once”)
• pamwe (“together”)
• zvimwe (“perhaps”)

Inflection

Note: the class 1 form úmwé is normally used in the Manyika dialects.

Swahili

Verb

mwe

1. second-person plural subjunctive affirmative of -wa